Afaik this happened with every single instance of a communist country. Communism seems like a pretty good idea on the surface, but then why does it always become autocratic?

      • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
        41·
        18 days ago

        Neither of those things are true.

        According to Wikipedia USA life expectancy is 79.3, Cuba is 78.1

        Ranking higher education is much trickier but pretty much every list I could find puts USA right at the top. American higher education institutions are world class and remains probably America’s biggest competitive advantage (i.e. brain drain).

        Also Cuba probably isn’t the best example to rebut the “why does communism always turn into a dictatorship” question.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      62·
      18 days ago

      Is “working” a sliding goalpost for you, or can you define it? You made the claim that Communism only works on paper and are asking people to disprove your claim, rather than substantiate your claim yourself. Surely you can see why others find your comment unproductive, correct?

    • meowMix2525@lemm.ee
      21·
      17 days ago

      Ignoring everything that American media will tell you about China, the Chinese people seem to be quite happy with their central government. Far more than any western country would even consider possible for themselves.

      It stands to reason that a capitalist state which hopes to maintain even a sheer facade of democracy and freedom of the press and speech, would do everything in its power to ensure that public opinion considers even the most successful socialist states as abject failures and something to be feared, maintaining that capitalism is the best thing the human mind can possibly conjure. This would ensure that the public never considers socialist ideas to be a realistic option worth educating each other about or exercising any of their democratic power to push for, so that the state never has to seriously confront anyone questioning the power of capital, and even gives the state cover to operate against socialist regimes and actors as a “humanitarian” or “national security” threat.

      The delegitimization is already done to the point that the question of socialism is a non-starter, all thought is terminated at the mere mention of it, and the state media can jump straight to calling people terrorists and dictators without anyone questioning it or the words losing any weight.